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Oil prices extend gains on US plans to refill reserve, Canada’s wildfires
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices rose for a second day early on Tuesday, as U.S. plans to purchase oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) lent support while raging wildfires in Can...
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Rakuten shares slump 6% on expected $2.2 billion new share issuance
TOKYO (Reuters) -Shares in Rakuten Group Inc fell 6% early on Tuesday, extending the previous day's sharp slide after Reuters reported the company would issue new shares to shore up its finances after...
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Australian consumer mood bleak in May after surprise rate hike, budget
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A measure of Australian consumer sentiment fell in May after a surprise hike in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and a "mildly disappointing" federal budget clo...
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Nelson Peltz adds to Disney stake following share sale in Q1 – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Trian Fund Management's Nelson Peltz, the activist investor who launched and then abandoned a proxy fight earlier this year at Walt Disney Co, has recently added to his stake in the compan...
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Nigeria needs $12 billion to clean up Bayelsa oil spills – report
By MacDonald Dzirutwe LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria needs $12 billion to clean up decades-old oil spills in southern Bayelsa state over a 12-year period, a new report said on Tuesday, and singled out Shel...
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One worker dies, two injured in fire at Texas refinery
By Erwin Seba TEXAS CITY, Texas (Reuters) -One Marathon Petroleum worker died on Monday and two others were hospitalized in a fire at the company's Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, said pe...
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Biden, McCarthy debt ceiling meeting planned for Tuesday afternoon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A debt limit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and top lawmakers including Republican House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been scheduled for 3 p.m. ET (19...
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Britons face biggest tax rise since 1979, think tank says
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) - Britons face the biggest tax-raising drive since the start of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher's term of office in the coming years as more people are pushed...
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Foreign buying of US Treasuries in March hits largest since June 2021 -data
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foreign buying of U.S. Treasuries in March rose to its highest level in more than two years, data from the Treasury Department showed on Monday, as inv...
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‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ musical to open in London
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - A musical based on hit novel "The Time Traveller's Wife" is coming to London's West End this autumn in a new theatrical adaptation featuring music and lyri...
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